Philbin stepped down from hosting duties on syndicated show “Live! With Regis and Kelly” earlier this month after 28 years.

A new co-anchor for Ripa has yet to be announced, and Harris is pundits’ favorite to take up Philbin’s empty seat.

But the star is adamant his commitments to TV comedy “How I Met Your Mother” for the next 18 months will prevent him from signing a deal.

He tells the New York Daily News, “I’m a huge Kelly Ripa fan. But it’s on a competing network (to ‘How I Met Your Mother’) and I have a contractual obligation for at least another year and a half, and I can’t imagine she’d want to fly solo for that long.